David Mount
Founding Software Engineer at Chinchill AI
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Mount is a seasoned software leader and founder with over 15 years building and scaling engineering organizations from startup teams to global payroll platforms. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering (Go, Rust, Python, Nuxt/Next, Postgres) with executive experience as VP of Engineering and CTO, driving products from concept through IPO and cloud transformation. Currently he’s founding Nuclear Ambitions, a learning and simulation platform for atomic energy that doubles as an AI-forward coding sandbox, and recently joined Chinchill AI as a founding engineer. Known for turning technical vision into delivery, he has led hundreds of engineers at Workday and helped grow Guidewire’s engineering org through major expansion and cloud offerings. Comfortable across infrastructure, Kubernetes, and storage systems, he also brings a physicist’s curiosity from a Cornell Applied & Engineering Physics background to tackle complex, mission-driven problems. Outside work he writes games, plays drums, and blends software craft with public-interest projects aimed at advancing atomic energy literacy.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Applied & Engineering Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Applied & Engineering Physics at Cornell University
JapaneseGithub contributions (5)
happyspiritgames/storytime-service
Oct 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:39 pushes in 8 months
ajeGames/cyd
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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